Word: 85th
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Ranting & Liberal. The powerful Rules Committee, will fall to Illinois' 82-year-old Adolph J. Sabath, the Ways & Means Committee to North Carolina's Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, who last week celebrated his 85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
William Randolph Hearst, long ailing at his Beverly Hills home, didn't come downstairs on his 85th birthday to accept the Air Force's meritorious service award (son Randolph accepted for him). Later on he struggled down to look at his cake...
Late in April, the University announced a relaxation in entrance requirements to facilitate veteran admission, the Law School having already taken that step by itself. And in the same week, as Copey celebrated his 85th birthday, the College reported that Kirkland House, occupied by the Navy since the summer of 1943, would be opened to civilians this summer...
Late in April, the University announced a relaxation in entrance requirements to facilitate veteran admission, the Law School having already taken that step by itslf.e. And in the same week, as Copey celebrated his 85th birthday, the College reported that Kirk land House, occupied by the Navy since the summer of 1943, would be opened to civilians this summer...
...Paris, he boasted an ancestry that included three colonial governors, a wife who was the daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head on a platter...